Today's Word "Reify"
Published in Vocabulary
reify \REE-eh-fy\ (verb) - To perceive or portray an abstract object as a real one.
"The second hindrance to objectivity is the ubiquitous tendency to reify the word, to assume the word itself somehow carries its own meaning." - C. E. Osgood, Method & Theory in Experimental Psychology
From Latin res "thing" also found in "real" and "republic" from res publica "thing of the people" Russian "respublika."
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